friday was insanely busy. i KNOW you're dying to know why, so here goes:
8:00 - pull up to the hilton for a ce course. as i'm pulling up, get a text from our good friend, cory, that jenny is in labor... go in and get checked into the ce course - tell doc that i may be leaving at any time...
8:20 - decide to go ahead and go out to the hospital. on the way there, i call and talk to cory. i decide to ask him if he remembered to grab jenny's "push present" on the way out. he didn't. i head to women's hospital to get the garage door opener/key/alarm code, etc. leave there and head to their house (a good 25ish minutes away). call to check on my sweet friend, katrice, who had (supposedly) outpatient surgery on thursday. um, yeah...that turned into an overnight stay. i lightly scold her (she sounded bad or i would have scolded more!) for not texting me and letting me know - i would have been there/stayed with her/etc.
***for those of you who are wondering what the heck a "push present" is - it's a piece of jewelry (often) or another gift that a lady is given after having a baby. do i need to do another post just on "push presents"?***
9:35 - "push present" is retrieved and i am headed back to the hospital. i have determined that cory has to be the most ocd individual i've ever been around after having to go into his closet. yes, i really feel like i know him now....
9:40 - decide that i want to run by sweet dreams and get something for sweet baby catelyn. not sure what time they open. luckily, i know the owner and have her cell number in my phone. i send her a text. they don't open until 10:00. i tell her that it's for jenny (who works there some doing all of their displays, etc - and was there on thursday!) and she tells me to come on - she'll let me in early.
9:50 - while waiting on christy to wrap catelyn's gift, i call cory to tell him what i got. my aunt calls and then calls again. i was going to call her back when i left the store and was headed back to the hospital. she sends a text - "call me" - i do and get the news i shared earlier (read the post right before this one about my dad).
10:05 - headed back to women's hospital. call tommy about my dad. debate over whether or not i need to go home to the Delta...
10:25ish - back at woman's. run in to see jenny. get there just in time for the anesthesiologist to come in to do her epidural. cory and parker go to eat; i go to see katrice (and take her jenny's blowdryer).
11:15 - get a text from a friend at the seminar that lunch is at 11:30. folks, i don't miss this lunch. it's shapley's. if i ever have the choice of a last supper, that would be it. hands down. i tell katrice that i'll be back later, go see jenny, and head to shapley's.
1:30 - through with lunch, etc., i run by the bank and head to the hilton.
2:05 - get a text from cory that reads "time to push". i lean over to adam (my bff jill's husband who is a dentist) and tell him that it was so good to see him, tell jill i love her and will talk to her soon, a friend's in labor - gotta go!
2:23 - i'm pulling in the parking lot on 2 wheels as i get another text from cory that says "catelyn is here!" i run in (it's raining all during every bit of this, people!) and breathe... then i text him and tell him to get a nurse to bring me the camera before he does the "walk down the hall with the new baby". he texts back "the camera is in the car". what?????? ok - so i get him to bring me the keys and I go get the camera!
2:40ish - camera's ready (cory DID text and ask if it was ok to come out - ha) and catelyn makes her grand debut to jenny's sister, leeann, cory's mom and dad, parker, and myself. she's so beautiful and cory is beaming. parker? not so much. (for those who don't know - parker will be 2 in june. he's not the biggest fan of catelyn at this point...)
sit with the winders and talk while we are watching them weigh, measure, give shots to, give a first bath, etc., to catelyn. i just took over the camera so that they wouldn't have to worry about it.
around 4:15ish i head down to katrice's room. she was by herself, so i sat with her for a little while. she wanted to get up and move around since she said she felt stiff, so we walked the halls. there was giggling coming from us like little girls. so much fun (if there IS such a thing in the hospital!). roseann got there a little later (while we were walking) to spend the night with katrice and we laughed some more.
laughter is the best medicine, right?
7:15ish - leave the hospital and run to target. decide to reward myself with some berry berry good (my absolute favorite). head to ja to watch ja/pillow basketball.
10:30 - get home and crash.
oh - and i was supposed to be at our global missions conference at church at 5:30 to help with the children's pajama party.... i went ahead and called kelli (in charge of it) early in the day to tell her that i just didn't know if i would be there or not.... i was physically AND mentally exhausted!
yeah - so that was my friday. i'm pretty much exhausted all over again now.....
have a great week! and say a prayer for my daddy - he goes back tomorrow to see if the reattached part of his finger is doing well. if not, they will take him in to surgery and amputate it =(
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